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Attorneys for the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque say he has lost 30 pounds and is being denied basic medical care for diabetes while detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal…
3 MIN READThe Senate voted 47-52 on Friday against advancing legislation to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as five Republicans joined most Democrats in blocking the measure over constitutional concerns and…
4 MIN READA 43-year-old man from Georgia died June 4 at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana, marking the second death at the facility in less than two months. The facility had been cited in a recent inspection for…
3 MIN READA 25-year-old Houston man is accused of using a fake boarding pass to board a United Airlines flight at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in mid-May, then hiding in a restroom as the plane taxied toward the runway, according to court…
3 MIN READChatbots on five different websites falsely claimed to be licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania when prompted by reporters, mirroring the type of output that led the state to sue the role-playing platform Character.AI last month.
3 MIN READThe Taxpayer Inspector General reported Monday that the IRS provided addresses for nearly 47,000 people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a data-sharing agreement, but that the matching process was inconsistent and…
3 MIN READTrump administration border czar Tom Homan said Monday he has reviewed a plan to deploy a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to New York City, threatening to send 'more ICE agents than you've ever seen' in what he…
3 MIN READSavannah Guthrie, the anchor of NBC's "Today" show, issued another emotional plea for the safe return of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, on Sunday as the search for the 84-year-old surpassed four months.
3 MIN READAt least 12 people were wounded in a shooting near the Old West End festival in Toledo, Ohio, on Saturday, according to police. Two victims were in critical condition as of Saturday evening, and no arrests had been made.
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump declined Sunday to rule out using nearly $1.8 billion from an "anti-weaponization" fund to compensate individuals who were charged with assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol,…
3 MIN READFive people were injured in a mass stabbing at New York City's Penn Station on Sunday evening, and a male suspect is in custody, officials said.
3 MIN READA former senior CIA officer arrested last month on charges of stealing more than $40 million in gold bars from the agency now faces allegations that he also created a fraudulent intelligence program to siphon additional funds, according to…
3 MIN READThe Senate early Friday approved nearly $70 billion in additional funding for the Department of Homeland Security, virtually without conditions, providing President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign with an essentially uninterrupted…
4 MIN READFired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley accused CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of interfering with a planned segment on the killing of Minneapolis protester Renee Good, saying Weiss demanded changes that would align the report with…
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Cheap, fast electric dirt bikes known as e-motos have become some of the most popular motorcycles in the United States, drawing a wave of young riders while prompting police crackdowns and new legislation from New York to Illinois. The…
5 MIN READAaron Spencer, the Republican nominee for sheriff in Lonoke County, Arkansas, said Thursday he is "more committed than ever" to his political campaign after a state judge dismissed a second-degree murder charge against him. Spencer had…
3 MIN READGroups of people have been filmed entering New York City's sewer system through manholes in Queens and Brooklyn since early May, sparking public intrigue, media comparisons to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and an investigation by the New…
3 MIN READAt least eight people were shot Saturday afternoon at the Old West End Festival in Toledo, Ohio, all of whom were transported to the hospital and are expected to survive, authorities said. Police were still searching for one or more…
3 MIN READMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her allies have reacted furiously to a U.S. indictment of Rubén Rocha, the sitting governor of Sinaloa and a member of her ruling Morena party, accusing Washington of meddling in Mexico's internal…
3 MIN READA Bethlehem, Pennsylvania police officer who resigned less than a year after joining the force to appear as a contestant on the reality dating show Love Island USA has drawn criticism from city officials and divided residents in his…
3 MIN READFamilies of immigrants detained at Delaney Hall, a private immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, described severe distress over conditions inside, including medical neglect, spoiled food, and sanitation failures, as some…
3 MIN READNew York City has seen a steady increase in complaints about dog waste left on sidewalks, prompting city council members to introduce legislation aimed at encouraging responsible pet ownership. Data from the city shows complaints have…
3 MIN READNew Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is facing intensifying backlash from immigrant-rights advocates and protesters who say her administration dispatched state police in riot gear to suppress demonstrations at the Delaney Hall immigration…
4 MIN READThe FBI on Friday fired five analysts connected to the creation of a 2023 intelligence memo that warned of a potential threat from Catholic 'violent extremists,' their attorney said, the latest wave of personnel actions under Director Kash…
3 MIN READActing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director David Venturella has issued a memo ordering the agency to stop reporting and investigating deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release, rescinding a Biden-era…
3 MIN READBrendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday for the aggravated murder of his wife and a man he and the family's au pair lured to the couple's Virginia home as a fall guy.…
3 MIN READDetainees at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center said guards denied them food and clean water for several days this week unless they signed documents written in English that they did not understand, according to an…
3 MIN READUS officials have arrested Jamshid Ghomi, a dual US-Iranian citizen, accusing him of using his technology company to smuggle sensitive computer systems to Iran, including to the country's nuclear and military establishment. Ghomi, 63, was…
3 MIN READA new analysis from the nonpartisan Niskanen Center found that President Trump's National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., reduced opportunistic property crimes by 24% but had no measurable effect on violent crime, while costing…
3 MIN READFormer CIA senior official David Rush was arrested last month at his Virginia home, where investigators found over 300 gold bars valued at more than $40 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. The gold bars were allegedly taken from…
3 MIN READFormer Attorney General Pam Bondi told the House Oversight and Reform Committee on May 29 that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was "in charge" of the Justice Department's handling and release of Jeffrey Epstein-related records,…
5 MIN READFederal and state authorities raided a South Carolina metal casting plant on Wednesday, detaining 48 workers on alleged immigration violations and arresting two company managers on charges of knowingly hiring immigrants in the U.S.…
3 MIN READA Colorado appeals court on Thursday reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics who injected the sedative ketamine into Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after a police encounter in 2019. The court ordered new…
4 MIN READA New Jersey police sergeant was charged Thursday with stealing $10,000 worth of cameras and equipment from an Associated Press photojournalist who had been injured covering protests outside a Newark immigration detention center,…
3 MIN READAn American journalist who has lived in China since 2010 and worked for state media organizations there pleaded guilty in a U.S. court Thursday to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, the Justice Department said.
3 MIN READA special judge in Arkansas has dismissed a second-degree murder charge against Aaron Spencer, the Republican nominee for sheriff in Lonoke County, after ruling that law enforcement's loss of a dash camera memory card that may have…
3 MIN READThe family of a 20-year-old Auburn University student who vanished in Japan nearly a week ago is appealing to the public for help locating him, his mother said Thursday. Japanese police deployed search dogs, helicopters and dozens of…
3 MIN READEight people were indicted in New York this week on charges of running a retail theft ring that stole nearly $5 million worth of goods, including cheese, beef, lamb, copper wiring, and cigarettes, the Manhattan district attorney's office…
3 MIN READThe FBI shot and killed a 41-year-old man early Wednesday morning after he took 10 employees of the Kern County Superintendent of Schools hostage inside a downtown Bakersfield office building and claimed to have explosive devices strapped…
3 MIN READDHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will soon have to complete more than 500 hours of training, restoring the program's original length…
3 MIN READSenate Republicans voted Tuesday to proceed with debate on a $72 billion reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement agencies through fiscal year 2029, resuming the effort after a delay sparked by concerns over a Trump…
3 MIN READAn unidentified man with a bomb strapped to his body barricaded himself inside a downtown Bakersfield bank on Tuesday afternoon, prompting police to issue evacuation orders and lock down city government buildings, authorities said.
3 MIN READTwo companies that sold illegal pyrotechnic devices used in a gender-reveal photo shoot that sparked California's 2020 El Dorado fire have agreed to pay more than $4 million to settle civil claims brought by the U.S. Forest Service. The…
3 MIN READIn the small, diverse community of Winooski, Vermont, a school district of about 800 students has refused to comply with Trump administration policies on immigration enforcement and diversity programs — a stand that drew death threats,…
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump said Wednesday that he expects acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to become his permanent choice for the nation's top law enforcement officer, according to an interview broadcast on Pod Force One.
3 MIN READChinese intelligence operatives are using legitimate employment websites including LinkedIn, Indeed and Upwork to pose as recruiters and trick UK government and military staff into disclosing state secrets, MI5 warned Wednesday in a rare…
3 MIN READThe Durham County Sheriff's Office rounded up six sheep that were wandering through a neighborhood on Duck Pond Court on Monday, using trash cans and cornhole boards as makeshift barriers. Animal Services deputies captured the five ewes…
3 MIN READA New York judge held a sealed virtual proceeding in the Luigi Mangione murder case on Wednesday, barring the press and public from attending despite objections from media organizations who were given no opportunity to argue against the…
3 MIN READNew Jersey state police and Newark police blocked journalists from covering demonstrations near the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility last week, detaining at least three news workers and denying press credentials to independent…
3 MIN READThe NYPD is investigating after security cameras recorded groups of people entering and exiting New York City’s sewer system through maintenance holes in Brooklyn and Queens in at least three separate nighttime incidents, according to…
3 MIN READPolice in Bakersfield, California, were negotiating Tuesday night with a man holding several people hostage inside a building that houses a Chase bank branch and a school district office. Officers responded to a bomb threat call around 1…
3 MIN READTwo supporters of President Donald Trump who were wounded during an assassination attempt at his July 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, sued the federal government Monday, alleging the Secret Service failed to properly secure…
3 MIN READA California cryptocurrency mogul who called himself 'The Godfather' pleaded guilty Monday to orchestrating the attempted kidnapping of a Connecticut couple whose son had been involved in a $245 million Bitcoin heist, federal prosecutors…
3 MIN READFederal prosecutors have charged four suspects with trafficking more than one ton of cocaine for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel using a fake retail store in San Diego as the front for a sophisticated subterranean tunnel that ran across…
3 MIN READFormer Republican congressman George Santos, who served four months in federal prison before President Trump commuted his sentence, is under investigation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Justice Department for insider…
4 MIN READThe New York Police Department is investigating multiple incidents in which groups of people have been seen emerging from sewer maintenance holes in Brooklyn and Queens late at night, prompting a sweep of the city's underground…
3 MIN READSeveral protesters were arrested overnight for defying a curfew at Delaney Hall, the Newark, New Jersey, immigration detention center that has been the site of more than a week of clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators…
3 MIN READA bus driver has been charged in connection with a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 95 in Virginia early Friday that killed five people, including a family of four from Massachusetts that was traveling to a wedding with a carload of…
3 MIN READHawaii authorities on Saturday charged 36-year-old Jacob Daniel Baker with first- and second-degree murder in the killings of three people in the rural Puna community on the Big Island, according to a news release from the Hawaii Police…
3 MIN READMARTA police arrested John Elijah Matthews, 25, on Saturday afternoon following the fatal stabbing of Margaret Swan, 66, on a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority train at the Oakland City Station. Chief Scott Kreher said the…
3 MIN READTina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, elections clerk convicted of participating in a scheme to breach election systems based on 2020 election conspiracy theories, was released from prison on June 1 after Gov. Jared Polis commuted…
3 MIN READTina Peters, 70, a former Mesa County clerk convicted of facilitating a breach of local voting equipment, is scheduled for release from a Colorado state prison on Monday after serving nearly two years. Gov. Jared Polis granted Peters'…
4 MIN READBelgian prosecutors are investigating UK money transfer company Wise over suspicions that criminals used its accounts to facilitate illicit fund movements. The probe focuses exclusively on the firm's European operations and is nearing its…
3 MIN READLoony John Franklin Kolb Toon, a 43-year-old Oregon resident, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to firing at law enforcement officers during a June 2025 traffic stop. The Clackamas County district…
3 MIN READNewark Mayor Ras Baraka imposed a curfew around the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in New Jersey early Sunday after another night of clashes between protesters and police at the facility.
3 MIN READCarroll County Sheriff's Deputy Logan Utt was fatally shot Friday when a man opened fire on two deputies conducting a welfare check at a home in Hillsville, Virginia, law enforcement officials said. A search was underway for the suspect.
3 MIN READThe tour bus driver blamed for a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 95 that killed five people and injured dozens has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, Virginia State Police confirmed Saturday.
3 MIN READThe Texas Department of Criminal Justice has stopped allowing inmates to receive hardback or used books, shifting all donations through a state school district in an effort to stem the flow of synthetic drugs soaked into book pages. The…
4 MIN READPolice on Hawaii's Big Island arrested a 36-year-old man Thursday on suspicion of murder after a two-day search, connecting him to the deaths of three older men in a remote rural area, authorities said.
3 MIN READMinneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara resigned effective immediately on Thursday, May 28, 2026, after an investigation commissioned by Mayor Jacob Frey found he had likely interfered in an internal police misconduct investigation. O’Hara,…
5 MIN READAndrew Boutros, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said Thursday evening that his office has not opened a criminal investigation into advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, contradicting earlier reports from multiple news…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Department of Justice sued Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington on Thursday, alleging those states are imposing unconstitutional restrictions by refusing to issue undercover license plates to federal agents, escalating the…
3 MIN READJonathan Loadholt, a 37-year-old former truck and bus driver from Staten Island, was sentenced Wednesday in Manhattan federal court after pleading guilty to conspiring to stalk and launder money for an Iranian government-directed…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, according to current and former U.S. law enforcement officials, in…
3 MIN READThe Department of Justice acknowledged on May 23, 2026, that it removed news releases detailing criminal charges, convictions, and sentencings of defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot from its website, describing the prosecutorial…
3 MIN READDetainees in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are dying by suicide at an accelerating rate, an Associated Press investigation has found, documenting deaths across a sprawling jail network where people in mental distress were…
3 MIN READA Washington tourist pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday to charges accusing him of throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal, and a judge ordered him to stay away from the islands' beaches and marine wildlife while the…
3 MIN READA former senior CIA official with top-secret security clearance, David Rush, was arrested and charged with criminal theft of public money after federal agents found more than $40 million in gold bars, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury…
3 MIN READMinneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara resigned Tuesday rather than face disciplinary action for interfering with an internal investigation into his conduct, Mayor Jacob Frey announced. The resignation comes as the department was navigating…
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